Through several hours of testimony Monday in Jackson Surber's murder trial, a slightly clearer picture began to emerge of the scene at a chaotic shoot-out that left a Willow Creek man dead in May 2011.

Surber, 30, of Hoopa, stands accused of murdering Darrell Hanger during a botched burglary attempt at the home of Hanger's son, Ryan Hanger. Prosecutors allege Surber and three companions arrived at Ryan Hanger's home shortly after midnight on May 5, 2011, intent on burglarizing what they thought was an empty house, but were taken by surprise when Darrell and Ryan Hanger tried to stop them at gunpoint.

When confronted by the Hangers and ordered to stop, Surber fatally shot Darrell Hanger as he and his accomplices fled the scene, prosecutors allege.

Mark Hapgood, Surber's attorney, doesn't dispute that his client shot and killed Darrell Hanger. Hapgood argued in his opening statement that Surber acted in self-defense, believing Darrell Hanger was going to kill him as he and his companions attempted to leave Ryan Hanger's property in a stolen Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.

On Monday, taking the stand for a third day of detailed and sometimes plodding testimony, Humboldt County Sheriff's Office evidence technician Karen Quenell testified for more than three hours, giving jurors a glimpse of the crime scene she found on the morning of May 5, 2011.

Quenell testified Monday that shattered glass from the driver's side window covered the interior of the Tacoma, which sat on the end of the driveway. She said shards were found on the driver's seat, in the cupholders, and in both the front and back passengers' seats. Similarly, Quenell testified, spent shell casings from Surber's 9 mm handgun littered the vehicle's interior.

During his opening argument, prosecuting Deputy District Attorney Zack Curtis told the jury that the Hangers' tried to keep the stolen Tacoma from fleeing their property. Curtis said Darrell Hanger shot out the pickup's rear driver's side tire before coming up to the driver's door and beginning to open it, trying to force the driver -- Bruce Jason Stallings-Hunsucker -- out of the vehicle. It was then, Curtis said, that Surber -- seated in the back seat behind Stallings-Hunsucker -- fired a shot through the driver's side door that hit Darrell Hanger, and then another through the rear driver's side door as Darrell Hanger stumbled backwards.

As the Tacoma backed out of the carport adjacent to Ryan Hanger's home and down his driveway, Curtis said, Surber kept firing, shooting out of the small window on the rear driver's side door and ultimately firing the shot that killed Darrell Hanger as he lay on the lawn in front of his son's house.

After his father was shot the first time, Ryan Hanger shot out the front driver's side tire of the Tacoma, Curtis said, before running for cover behind a truck parked in front of his home. As the Tacoma approached the end of his driveway -- which empties into a cul-de-sac -- Ryan Hanger shot at it three or four more times, Curtis told the jury.

On Monday, Quenell testified that she found more than a dozen bullet fragments in the wood wall at the west side of the carport, several from Darrell Hanger's abdomen, several more in the cab of the Tacoma, and two more in one of its tires.

Additionally, Quenell testified, three spent bullets were recovered -- one from Darrell Hanger's body, another from the kitchen wall of Ryan Hanger's home and a third from the front bumper area of the truck parked in Ryan Hanger's front yard.

Quenell said Monday that she couldn't say which fragments or which bullets came from which guns involved in the incident.

Quenell also testified that she ran registration checks on all the firearms found at the scene of the shoot-out but was unable to find a registered owner listed for the .357 magnum revolver Darrell Hanger reportedly fired at the scene. Under cross examination, Quenell testified she learned at the scene that the .357 -- which she found next to the outstretched left hand of Darrell Hanger's body -- had been moved prior to her arrival.

Last week, Quenell testified that it is her custom to photograph every item of evidence at a crime scene -- without disturbing it -- in order to keep a record of the scene exactly as it was found. She testified Monday that she photographed the .357 as she found it near Darrell Hanger's body, despite knowing it had been placed there after the shoot-out.

"You photographed it there because of the important evidentiary value of where it was located?" Hapgood asked.

"Yes," Quenell replied.

Surber remains held in the Humboldt County jail on $1.5 million bail, having pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, burglary and auto theft. He faces life in prison if convicted of all charges in the case.

One of Surber's companions, Sonia Hunsucker, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case, and faces a sentence of 15 years to life in prison when sentenced later this month. Stallings-Hunsucker and the fourth suspect, Samantha Machado, have pleaded not guilty and are preparing to stand trial in a separate proceeding.

Surber's trial is expected to resume today with Curtis calling his next witness.